This is the first time I’ve shared this truth with the world. The only people who were privy of this knowledge were those closest to me. Not because I felt shame about being depressed, but because of the perception that many people hold that someone like me shouldn’t be struggling with something like depression.
More than a year ago we launched Black Women About Business. It was shortly after I enrolled in an 11-month business incubation program for women and discovered out of about 450 women, there were a handful of people of color, and maybe three African American women in total across the globe. A couple months into the program I realized …
Hundreds of people have asked me how I launched and sustained my business, Change Agent Consulting, LLC, since launching more than twelve years ago. I’m always happy to shed light on my experience as an entrepreneur because much of what I know I had to learn on my own. In other words, it’s one of the ways I pay it …
I have asked myself the question ‘who am I?’ a 1,000 times. And I know that many people ask themselves the same question. Some of us, depending on where we are in our lives, may know unequivocally the answer to that question, and other times that answer seems to elude us. That’s because we are always evolving, or more so, evolution is happening all …
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Every time we have an offering, such as the Be Well Fabulous Black Woman Tour which will become the Be Well Fabulous Woman Tour starting March, 2020, or the Be Well Beautiful Woman Retreat, the question is raised about why the experience is so much. It’s an interesting question. One that I felt compelled to explore for anyone …
I’ve been thinking a lot about the value of relationships lately. Although my awareness about this came early on in my career, I’ve never really considered the monetary value of these relationships. In relationships, particularly business relationships, I’ve always had the long game in mind. The short game are things like delivering what we say …
If you attended last years Be Well Fabulous Black Woman Tour, which is now the Be Well Beautiful Woman Tour, you got a chance to meet Lisa A. Smith. Lisa, a Detroit native, is a certified plant-based nutritionist, author of The Plant Based Foodie, founder of the Black Heath Academy & Professionally Fit, nonprofit leader, speaker, blogger, and podcaster. With the litany of things …
